Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 19 July 2001 letter to Chinese President Jiang Zemin, CPJ expressed concern over the imprisonment of journalist Jiang Weiping on the charge of “revealing state secrets.” The organization called for his immediate and unconditional release. Jiang was arrested on 5 December 2000, after publishing a number of articles for the Hong […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 19 July 2001 CPJ press release: CPJ TESTIFIES BEFORE CONGRESS ON PRESS FREEDOM CONDITIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA New York, July 19, 2001 — A Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) representative testified before a joint congressional subcommittee yesterday about the terrible state of press freedom in Central Asia. “Repression and […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 17 July 2001 letter to Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos, CPJ expressed concern over the latest deterioration in Angolan press freedom. While Angolan journalists have long faced official hostility and harassment, CPJ has documented a deplorable surge in government interference with the independent press in recent weeks. Such actions create […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 17 July 2001 CPJ press release: UKRAINIAN MEDIA EXECUTIVE ASSAULTED New York, July 17, 2001 — Oleh Velichko, the head of the Avers media corporation in western Ukraine, was brutally beaten by two unknown assailants outside his home in the late evening hours of Wednesday, July 11, according to […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 13 July 2001 CPJ press release: Angola: Rafael Marques Detained in Viana New York, July 13, 2001 — Authorities in Angola detained journalist and human-rights activist Rafael Marques this afternoon for approximately one hour, according to Angolan sources. Marques was covering the government’s forced relocation of residents from the […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 12 July 2001 CPJ press release: RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES FREE TAJIK JOURNALIST New York, July 12, 2001—Dododjon Atovullo, the Tajik journalist and opposition activist who was detained in Moscow last week while Russian authorities considered extraditing him to Tajikistan, was released today and has returned to Germany, where he is […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is an 11 July 2001 CPJ press release: COLOMBIA: Three journalists killed in past week New York, July 11, 2001 — In a tragic week for the Colombian press, three local broadcast journalists have been murdered in the violence-plagued country since July 4. CPJ is investigating all three deaths to determine […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is an 11 July 2001 CPJ press release: PAKISTANI JOURNALISTS JAILED FOR MORE THAN A MONTH ON BLASPHEMY CHARGES New York, July 11, 2001 — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is dismayed that local authorities in Abbottabad have not dropped blasphemy charges brought against journalists from the Urdu-language daily Mohasib, […]